On May 9, Amarillo used cumulative voting for the fifth time to elect school board members. As with every previous election, candidates of color were elected. Voters returned African-American incumbent James Allen and Latina incumbent Mary Faulkner, both of whom had won endorsements from the Amarillo Globe-News in its editorial praising the school board's overall effectiveness. Before cumulative voting had been installed in 2000, no candidate of color had won for two decades, triggering a voting rights lawsuit that led to the implementation of cumulative voting.As with many local elections in Texas, turnout was low -- barely 5% of the city's nearly 100,000 registered voters. In the city's last cumulative voting elections for college board of regents in 2008, turnout had been more than 15%.
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On April, 28, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signed National Popular Vote (NPV) legislation, making Washington the 5th state after Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, and New Jersey to sign the legislation. These five states have a total of 61 electoral votes, just less than a quarter of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring the compact into effect.